1961-1962 - American Museum of Natural History

increase was not unexpected; it had been planned for some ten
years ago. In 1955, a supervisorship of adult programs was
established, with Mr. C. Bruce Hunter in this post; and in
1959, the Museum created its first division of adult education.
The staff, consisting of the supervisor, three senior instructors,
and one instructor, is augmented by members of the scientific
staff and outside lecturers. Last year eighteen courses for teachers
were given, each carrying college credit of two points. Two
courses at graduate level were offered during the National Science
Foundation Summer Institute, and 20 lecture courses were
given in the adult school. In addition, the adult education division
conducted a series of gallery talks and slide lectures, the
"Wednesday Film Programs for Adults," the "Adult Student
Council Programs," and the "Nurses Education Program," for
a total of 3324 sessions of instruction.
Last year, the total student body for all the teaching and lecturing
programs of the department was 233,390 individuals
who received 435,463 student hours of instruction in 12,120
sessions in classrooms, laboratories, workshops, lecture rooms,
and exhibition halls, as well as in the field.
DEPARTMENT OF EXHIBITION AND GRAPHIC ARTS
Gordon R. Reekie, Chairman
While planning and exhibit design for new halls continued,
several long-term exhibition projects were completed, and the
largest and most ambitious temporary exhibit in the history of
the Museum was installed.
All fourteen of the habitat groups of small North American
mammals have been finished. These are to be installed in the
first-floor corridor connecting the Hall of North American
Mammals with the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians.
Renovation of the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians was completed,
and the new lighting, which provides dramatic contrast
between brilliance and shadow, displays the totem poles to full
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